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The hype machine, how social media disrupts our elections, our economy, and our health--and how we must adapt, Sinan Aral

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The hype machine, how social media disrupts our elections, our economy, and our health--and how we must adapt, Sinan Aral

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-365) and index

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mapsillustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The hype machine

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Responsibility statement

Sinan Aral

Sub title

how social media disrupts our elections, our economy, and our health--and how we must adapt

Summary

Social media connected the world--and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. Now a leading researcher at MIT draws on 20 years of research to show how these trends threaten our political, economic, and emotional health in this eye-opening exploration of the dark side of technological progress

Table Of Contents

The New Social Age -- The End of Reality -- The Hype Machine -- Your Brain on Social Media -- A Network's Gravity is Proportional to Its Mass -- Personalized Mass Persuasion -- Hypersocialization -- Strategies for a Hypersocialized World -- The Attention Economy and the Tyranny of Trends -- The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds -- Social Media's Promise Is Also Its Peril -- Building a Better Hype Machine

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